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"But it cannot be! He ell three days ago"

"Not well, I suspect This seems like a secondary attack, which has

followed some previous illness--possibly typhoid--it o, or recently"

"Ah--he was not well--you are right He was ill--he was ill when I

ca more to do or say She crouched down at the side of

the bed, and Fitzpiers took a seat Thus they re as it lasted she never turned her eyes, or apparently her

thoughts, at all to her husband He occasionally ht directions for alleviating the pain of

the dying

the intervals in silent tears

Winterborne never recovered consciousness of as passing; and that

he was going became soon perceptible also to her In less than an hour

the delirium ceased; then there was an interval of so, at the end of which Winterborne passed

quietly away

Then Fitzpiers broke the silence "Have you lived here long?" said he